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GED 7875 Technology in the classroom

For our presentation we have decided to focus on six areas of technology. A more extensive (though by no means comprehensive) list is found in our resources page.
 * Blogs (Sabrina)
 * Wikis (Andrea)
 * Podcasts and TeacherTube (Adam)
 * cell phones (Adam)
 * videoconferencing via webcams and Skype (Andrea)
 * Google suite (googledocs, googlevoice) (Christa)

We also have a discussion of the key goals of technology in education.

“Smart technology use is about changing the roles of both teacher and student. The computer-using student can now be the content expert; the teacher becomes the process expert asking such questions as “Where did you get that information? How do you know it's accurate? Why is it important? How can you let others know what you discovered? And how can you tell if you did a good job?” The world has changed and it is rank stupidity not to recognize it and change as well” (Johnson, 2009).

Check out these links for more information on teaching students to be critical consumers of information: [] []